simple bash script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I am writing a shell script in bash one of the thing I want to show is size of export /home

du -sk /export/home/oracle | cut -c 1-5
echo "kbytes"

when I run the script kbytes shows up in the second line, How can I append kbytes on the same line, such as
61233 kbytes

please guide

thanks

2 
echo `du -sk /export/home/oracle | cut -c 1-5` "kbytes"

Regards

3

thanks so much